Sounds gay.

Don’t de-federate with Mastodon.art just because the instance operator is a cunt. While I do understand the pragmatism behind defederating with degenerate instances like those to protect your community from abusive people, you need to remember that you also risk doing so at the exclusion of many others that have done nothing else wrong.

Fediblocking is often used as the first line of defense to such an extent that the greater Fediverse pokes fun at Mastodon instances for facilitating block-happy echo chambers. While I do agree that such an extreme measure will have to be taken eventually, I do think that responsible communities should treat it for it is, an absolute last resort that should be used when all other avenues have been exhausted. I.E, communicating with the instance’s administration first, performing a risk assessment on the ratio of genuinely malicious to non-malicious users before then taking action to fediblock.

Calling someone a slur or making a statement that may not sit well or otherwise align with your values are not reasons to #fediblock entire instances. I know plenty of good people among “the usual suspects“ that I actively associate with because the few degenerates among them do not represent their instance in its entirety. I truly do wish more #mastodon users and instances would understand that is rather than going on to fediblock entire instances over one person for guilt by association.

We’re in the current year people, not the Paleolithic era. Identify this nonsense for the tribalism for what it is and work on moving past it.